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American book-plates, a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent (1905)

Allen, Charles Dexter, 1865-1926, Norwood Press. (1905) bkp CU-BANC, Hewins, Eben Newell · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 414

An illustration from American book-plates, a guide to their study with examples ... With a bibliography by Eben Hewins ... Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and recent, 1905, leaf 414
e an idea of the pur-suit of the owner, whether it be in literature, art,science, or professional life. The plate of GeorgeEdward Sears, with its grinning skull, is perhapsat first glance unpleasant in its effect, but whenone comes to unravel the plain meaning of thesymbolism, the shudder dies… … 359 OF THE UNIVERSITV I 360 American Book-plates. a 1754 edition of Matthew Merians work, thisplate which seemed no part of the series but animpromptu addition, he adopted it for his book-plate. Mr. W. J. Linton engraved the block,reducing considerably from the original. Thisplate is used only in…

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